[Publib] You know you're a rural librarian if . . .

[Fred Beisser]

Positive word-of-mouth public relations----the very best kind!!!!

Fred Beisser
Trustee
www.elbertcountylibrary.org
(Colorado)

Kathleen Stipek wrote:
>
> So did I. It was great post-MLS training. If we can all stand one more 
> story:
>
> My parents were in town and fell by the library to take me to dinner 
> after work, and a little girl came in to get a library card. We 
> charged for outside-the-city cards, $2 for kids. The little dear had 
> saved up $1.90, and her mom didn’t have any money on her, but I gave 
> her the card anyway, and told her to bring in the extra dime next time 
> she had one. She checked out a couple books and left happy After I 
> locked up, my dad told me that not only had I told the mother that I 
> trusted her and her child but that that mother would tell everybody 
> she knew that I had. The little one came in a week or so later with 
> the dime, too, so she was good for it,
>
> Kathleen Stipek
>
> Alachua County Library District
>
> 401 East University Avenue
>
> Gainesville, Florida 32601
>
> 352-334-3931, fax 352-334-3939
>
> --Non, merci
>
> Cyrano de Bergerac
>
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> *From:* publib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] *On Behalf Of *Mary Soucie
> *Sent:* Friday, June 12, 2009 9:51 AM
> *To:* publib at webjunction.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Publib] You know you're a rural librarian if . . .
>
> From my previous library:
>
> -when you ask a patron applying for a library their phone number, they 
> rattle off the last four digits (sadly we now have to dial the area 
> code but natives or long timers still rattle off just the last four 
> digits)
>
> -you get a call at home on a Sunday to your unlisted (for personal 
> reasons) phone number telling you the book drop's overflowing and it's 
> raining
>
> -you go to lunch and a patron hands you a book and asks if you can 
> return it for her
>
> -you get complaints about staff when you're at the roller rink in the 
> next town with your son
>
> I loved working in a rural library.
>
> -- 
> Have a great day!
>
> Mary
>
> Mary J. Soucie, MLIS
> Library Director
> Three Rivers Library District
> Channahon/Minooka IL
> 25207 W Channon Dr PO Box 300
> Channahon IL 60410
> 815-467-6200 x303
> 815-467-4012 Fax
> Yahoo IM: trldirector
>
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